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Bear left along the track through mixed woodland (ignoring a track to the right after 150 metres) to a track crossover. Continue straight on and soon you will emerge from the woodland into a field. Carry on along the grassy path next to the hedge – with distant views of rolling downland across the Bourne Valley – to reach an ‘ancient’ kissing gate and after another 200 metres a stile by a tennis court. Just beyond is an impressive house − Stokehill Farm − constructed largely of flint.

Keep to the broad grassy path (usually very well maintained) towards a small stable block where you need to bear left on to a short stony track which, in only 25 metres, joins the Brenda Parker Way (BPW) arriving acutely from the right.

The BPW is a 78-mile (125km) trail between Andover and Aldershot, which was created in memory of Brenda Parker who energetically promoted rambling, especially in North Hampshire. Brenda was to be awarded an honorary lifetime membership of the Ramblers but sadly died just a few days before the presentation.